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 I think we all know that we can’t just look at our own little bit of the world and hope to be able to be competitive. Out of this comes the Supply Chain concept which I often find is used as a catch word in discussions / articles but isn’t often comprehensive or well defined. [...] I intend to do a series of posts on fruit and vegetable drying given that this is one of the simplest, safest and cheapest processing technologies. However, as I am always promoting that we need to start at the market side. We also need to define the sector we are working in. But first a [...] This is another food processing based business manual by Peter Fellows like others I have reviewed eg Business Manual – Small-scale Root Crops and Tubers Processing and Products Free Online Information – Milling & Baking Enterprise Design Processing Fruit & Vegetables The latter being similar to this manual but with more of a technology focus [...] Consumers in Europe are likely to increasingly see fruit and vegetables with less than perfect appearance (the so called “wonky” produce) on their supermarket shelves from July 2009 as the EU tries to reduce its bureaucracy
Vegetables
Attractive and wholesome fruit and vegetables like these feed the world but have, over [...] I believe now is an appropriate time to focus on drying and solar energy. Drying is the simplest and one of the most effective methods of preserving food, allowing it to be stored without cost and equipment. The energy of the sun is free to anyone able to use it effectively. In the current situation [...] This manual is a publication of Agromisa and covers the preservation of fruit and vegetables. It is available as a free pdf for online download and in print at a cost of 8.49 Euro from Agromisa.
from: Agromisa (click image to download)
The images below are clips from the manual and presented [...] Many consumers in South Africa believe that we do not get the best fruit, which is reserved for export. I was one of these people until I saw the display below in a supermarket in Cluny. photo by Dave Harcourt (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)
I was also surprised to see [...] This short review from: Food Central (click image for full story online)
titled “The mycotoxin patulin: a concern for apple juice processing and products” on the Food Central site is one of the many free information services FSTA offer. The site is well worth exploring and subscribing to for the good information [...] UNIDO is the United Nations body tasked with industrial development. They have been active in promoting the introduction of small scale processing in Developing Countries. In this work they have developed very useful materials which are available online. One of these is Small-scale Fruit and Vegetable Processing and Products; Production Methods, Equipment and Quality Assurance [...] |
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